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Quick Action Is Needed to Avert
Doctors Strikes, Hospital Closures

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Mark Ingebretsen

Updated Jan. 2, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

Right as the New Year begins, long-feared confrontations over medical costs appear to be coming to a head.

For example, surgeons at four hospitals in West Virginia "began a strike Wednesday to protest malpractice insurance costs, and most operations in northern West Virginia were canceled or were being moved," according to an Associated...